---
title: Letter to Croesus
title_greek: Ἐπιστολή
author: Pittacus Letters
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period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
domain: Rhetoric
format: Epistle
license: CC0-1.0
---

# Letter to Croesus

*Ἐπιστολή*

**Author:** Pittacus Letters

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## Text

### 1

Κροίσῳ.

### 2

Κέλεαί με ἱκνέεσθαι ἐς Λυδίην, ὅπως σοι τὸν ὄλβον ἴδοιμι· ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ μὴ ὁρεὶς πέπεισμαι τὸν Ἀλυάττεω παῖδα τῶν βασιλήων πολυχρυσότατον πέλειν. οὐδέν τε πλέον ἄμμιν ἱκομένοις ἐς Σάρδις· χρυσοῦ γὰρ οὐ δεύ μεθα, ἀλλὰ πέπαμαι ἄρκια καὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἑτάροις. ἔμπας δ’ ἵξομαι, ὡς ἀνδρὶ ξείνῳ γενοίμην τοι συνόμι λος.

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